Ranzal implemented Oracle EPM Cloud services including PBCS, FCCS, EDMCS, and FDMEE for Baha Mar to support daily operational reporting, budgeting and forecasting, monthly financial close, and data management. Key aspects included automating the monthly close in FCCS, daily driver-based forecasting in PBCS, leveraging EDMCS for shared hierarchies, and using FDMEE to integrate source system data. The implementation went live successfully and provided benefits like improved accuracy, a single source of financial data, and automated reporting. Lessons learned included thorough requirements, early data gathering, and ensuring client resource availability. The next steps involve implementing account reconciliation in ARCS.

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10215
Getting the Most Out of
Oracle’s EPM Cloud
Services
Baha Mar’s Big Bet on Red
24 April 2018
Tony Scalese & Randy Werder
Vice President / Managing
Director
Edgewater Ranzal

2. Agenda
• About Ranzal, Us and Baha Mar
• Project Overview
• Project Details
• Live Demo
• Benefits Overview, Lessons Learned, Next Steps

3. About Ranzal
Edgewater Ranzal is a full-service Oracle Platinum Partner with premier services in North America and Canada
1,000+ Oracle/Hyperion
epm, bi, big data customers
2,000+ Oracle/Hyperion
epm, bi, big data projects
50+ Oracle SaaS Customers
PBCS
EPBCS
FCCS
ARCS
BICS/
OAC BD Cloud
PCMCS
EPRCS
Planning
Suite
Fin Close
Suite
BI Suite
Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) On Premise
Big Data
HPCM
DRM/DRG
FDMEE
Governance
Engineered
Systems
FCM
Integration
EDMCS

4. About Us
• Randy Werder – Managing Director
– 18 years of EPM Experience
– Background in Hospitality (WDW)
• Tony Scalese – Vice President
– 18 years of EPM Experience, 11 years with Ranzal
• Former application administrator at Fortune 500
– Oracle ACE
– Partners closely with Oracle Development and Product Mgmt
– Author of 2 Books on FDMEE

5. About Baha Mar
• Multi-billion dollar 5 Star Resort located in Nassau, Bahamas
• Owned by CTF BM Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong conglomerate
Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Ltd.
• Soft opened in April 2017, Full open in October 2017
• 3 Hotel Brands – Grand Hyatt, SLS, Rosewood
• Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course
• An ESPA spa
• Luxury shopping including Bulgari, Rolex and Hublot
• World class restaurants including Katsuya, Cleo and Shuang Ba
• Casino with Ocean Views complete with table games, slots and sports book
• Exciting additions planned over the coming years
Randy’s RoomTony’s Room

6. Project Background
• Prior to the bankruptcy of previous Baha Mar owners, PBCS was implemented
• Very rudimentary implementation, all data had to be hand keyed – daily
• Originally planned to implement Oracle G/L cloud, scraped and reverted back
to Great Plains
• Re-envisioned EPM project to support:
– Daily Operational Reporting
– Budget and Forecasting
– Monthly Financial Close
– Monthly Account Reconciliation

7. Oracle EPM Products
• Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS)
• Financial Close and Consolidation Cloud Service (FCCS)
• Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS)
• Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS)
– Cloud Data Management (CDM)
• Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition (FDMEE)*

8. Wave 1 Project Timeline
• Requirements – October 2017
• Design – October 2017
• Build – November 2017 – March 2018
– FCCS & PBCS
– EDMCS Early Adopter participation Dec – 2017 through Feb 2018, procured
subscription end of Feb 2018
• Testing
– FCCS/PBCS: March 2018
• Go Live
– FCCS: April 2018 Close
– PBCS: May 2018 Forecast

9. Solution Architecture

10. Monthly Close
• Converting manual Excel consolidation to automated consolidation using FCCS
• Automated Elimination turned on for Accounts payable and Accounts
Receivable. Mapping GL Intercompany accounts to FCCS Account and ICP
dimension.
• Utilized FCCS out of box Cash Flow.
• Fiscal year Consolidated Balance Sheet and Income Statement reporting by
Line of Business and Department.

11. Why FDMEE?
FDMEE CDM
Flat file Processing  
Pre Built Connection to Oracle branded Ledgers  
Pre Built Connection to Oracle Fusion GL  
Pre Built Connection to SAP ERP & DW  
Direct Connection to relational data sources  
Mapping  
Multi-period Processing  
Data Synchronization (Hybrid Mode)  
Data Synchronization (Full Cloud Mode)  
Automation  
Import, Custom & Event Scripting  
Custom Reports  
Drill Through  
Textual “data”  
Flat file Master Data Integration  

12. Data Sources
Source Target Type/Technology Purpose Data Flow Scenario Frequency
Simphony PBCS.DOR FDMEE - OIA Load food and beverage revenue Inbound DOR Daily
IBS PBCS.DOR FDMEE - OIA Load golf and retail revenue Inbound DOR Daily
Spasoft PBCS.DOR FDMEE - OIA Load Spa Inbound DOR Daily
Revintel PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load Rooms Inbound DOR Daily
Slots PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load Slots Inbound DOR Daily
Table Games PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load Table games Inbound DOR Daily
Sports Book PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load Sports Book Inbound DOR Daily
AVPM PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load parking and valet Inbound DOR Daily
VistaTime PBCS.DOR FDMEE - OIA Load Headcount Inbound DOR Daily
NetTime PBCS.DOR FDMEE - Flat File Load Hours Inbound DOR Daily
Great Plains FCCS FDMEE - OIA Load trial balance Inbound Actual Monthly
FCCS PBCS FDMEE - Data Sync Sync adjustments & elims Intra EPM Actual Monthly
PBCS FCCS FDMEE - Data Sync Load Status Intra EPM Actual Monthly

13. EDMCS – An Early Adopter
• Baha Mar was 1 of 3 Worldwide Early Adopters of EDMCS
• Formal Oracle program to beta test the new software/cloud service offering
• Qualifications:
– Imminent project
– Project profile that fits anticipated use cases
– Reasonable customer
– Qualified consulting partner (skills & personality)
• Leveraged EDMCS to manage multiple shared hierarchies across PBCS &
FCCS
– Account
– Department
• Utilized Cloud Data Management and FDMEE to augment EDMCS functionality
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14. Monthly Forecasting
• Rolling Forecasts (13-24 month according style)
• Heavily driver based across lines of business
– LOB/Department
– Global
• Fixed and Variable staffing models
• Consolidated data (FCCS) loaded in monthly
• Days Open functionality
• Linked Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Capital
• Long Range Planning

15. Daily Operational Reporting
• Daily Feeds from source systems into PBCS
– Line of business Revenues, Daily Payroll information
• Full flash P&L and KPI’s available every morning
• Daily driver based forecasting for 90 days
• Daily forecasts feed into the monthly rolling forecast
• Daily and Month to Date KPI’s allow the user to better forecast volatility
– Occupancy
– Gaming (VIPS)
– Capture Rates
– Days Open

16. Live Demo

17. Benefits Realized
PBCS
• Ability to be more accurate on a daily forecasting basis for a highly volatile
industry
• Central collection of source data in a Daily Flash Report gives managers of
each LOB a snapshot of the business to make decisions
• Changes to occupancy or other global drivers at daily, monthly, annual levels
will flow through entire model for quick analysis
FCCS
• Great Plains data automatically being pulled to FCCS using FDMEE
• One version of the truth, instead of utilizing various excel templates and pivots.
• Actual reporting in one consolidated environment by different line of business
and Department.

18. Lessons Learned
• Requirements
– Be thorough
• Data, always data
– Gather data/source systems earlier
• Metadata
– Constant additions and changes to dimensional structures
• Resources
– Client resources are critical to project success

19. Next Steps: Account Reconciliation
• Requirements: - April 2018
• Design: – April 2018
• Build: – May 2018 – July 2018
• Testing: July 2018
• Go Live: July/August 2018

20. Session ID:
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10215
ascalese@ranzal.com
rwerder@ranzal.com